Installing Moodle using command line

Installing Moodle Using command line is just as easy as installing Moodle using web browser.

Steps

• First. Go to the moodle root directory and then to admin directory inside the moodle root. For example type:

$cd /var/www/html/moodle/admin

• Second. Use the following syntax to run the moodle command line installer (this is a long command which has been split over 3 lines, so type as one line)

$php cliupgrade.php --lang=en --webaddr=http://www.example.com --moodledir=/var/www/html/moodle --datadir=/var/moodledata --dbtype=mysql --dbhost=localhost --dbname=moodle --dbuser=root --prefix=mdl --verbose=1 --interactivelevel=2

Options

More information about the options can be found using

$php cliupgrad.php --help

Then you will see the following list of available options

--lang Valid installed language for installation. Default is English(en)

--webaddr Web address for the Moodle site

--moodledir Location of the moodle web folder

--datadir Location of the moodle data folder (should not be web visible)

--dbtype Database type. Default it mysql

--dbhost Database host. Default localhost

--dbname Database name. Default is moodle

--dbuser Database user. Default is blank

--dbpass Database password. Default is blank

--prefix Table prefix for above database tables. Default is mdl

--verbose 0 No output, 1 Summarized output(Default), 2 Detailed output

--interactivelevel 0 Non interactive, 1 Semi interactive(Default), 2 Interactive

--help print out this help

When you choose non interactive mode without any options all the default values are assumed.